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Synonyms for animals

Grammar : Noun
Spell : an-uh-muhl
Phonetic Transcription : ˈæn ə məl

Top 10 synonyms for animals
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Définition of animals

Origin :
  • early 14c. (but rare before c.1600, and not in KJV, 1611), "any living creature" (including humans), from Latin animale "living being, being which breathes," neuter of animalis "animate, living; of the air," from anima "breath, soul; a current of air" (see animus, and cf. deer). Drove out the older beast in common usage. Used of brutish humans from 1580s.
  • noun animate being; mammal
Example sentences :
  • They are as animals grown in an environment that demands no struggle of them.
  • Extract from : « The Spenders » by Harry Leon Wilson
  • His teeth were large and looked like the teeth of many of our own animals.
  • Extract from : « Ancient Man » by Hendrik Willem van Loon
  • When one looked at him one felt that he was a standard by which other animals should be measured.
  • Extract from : « Way of the Lawless » by Max Brand
  • And yet her mother had told her she did not know why God made the animals!
  • Extract from : « Weighed and Wanting » by George MacDonald
  • From children and animals it extended to slaves and criminals.
  • Extract from : « A Treatise on Parents and Children » by George Bernard Shaw
  • For in those days men could smell weather quite as well as the other animals.
  • Extract from : « The Trail Book » by Mary Austin
  • In short, there were creatures in which were combined the limbs of every species of animals.
  • Extract from : « The Babylonian Legends of the Creation » by British Museum
  • But the animals not being able to bear the prevalence of light, died.
  • Extract from : « The Babylonian Legends of the Creation » by British Museum
  • Protoplasmic movements, you know, and unicellular plants and animals.
  • Extract from : « The Bacillus of Beauty » by Harriet Stark
  • Their wives and their womenkind generally, have no position but that of animals.
  • Extract from : « The Story of the Malakand Field Force » by Sir Winston S. Churchill

Antonyms for animals

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